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    Summer R. Jackson

    Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer... View Details

    • 01 Dec 2006
    • What Do You Think?

    How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

    jobs as well as labor, most agreed with author Gregory Clark's thesis that "labor quality," not just low cost, is a major driver of capital flows that leads to economic prosperity. This raised questions, though, about the impact... View Details
    Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
    • September 2024
    • Article

    Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock

    By: Patrick Agte, Arielle Bernhardt, Erica M. Field, Rohini Pande and Natalia Rigol
    How do poor entrepreneurs trade off investments in business enterprises versus children's human capital, and how do these choices influence intergenerational socio-economic mobility? To examine this, we exploit experimental variation in household income resulting from... View Details
    Keywords: Socio-economic Mobility; Entrepreneurship; Education; Income; Literacy; Poverty
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    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    A Conceptualization of Sub-Living Wages: Liabilities, Leverage, and Risk

    By: Drew Keller, Katie Panella and George Serafeim
    Currently the accounting system records employee wages as an expense in the income statement. However, paying below living wages can expose an organization to reputational and operational risks. In this paper, we offer an alternative conceptualization of the issue of... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Impact Accounting; Leverage; Wages; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Social Issues; Human Capital
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    Ten Year Sunset Rule for Healthcare Regulation Is a Nonstarter and Discouragement to Post-COVID-19 Investment

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Eugene Schneller
    U.S. healthcare delivery has not benefitted from the same productivity growth as many other service industries, such as bricks and mortar retailing, a loss that has gravely diminished cost control and access. Regulatory capture, which creates barriers to venture... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; COVID-19; Regulation; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Investment
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    • January 2009
    • Journal Article

    The Fiscal Impact of High-skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S.

    By: Mihir Desai, D. Kapur, J. McHale and K Rogers
    Easing immigration restrictions for the highly skilled in developed countries portends a future of increased human capital outflows from developing countries. The myriad consequences of these developments for developing countries include the direct loss of the fiscal... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Diasporas; Developing Countries and Economies; Taxation; Compensation and Benefits; Human Capital; Mathematical Methods; India; United States
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    • August 31, 2017
    • Article

    CEOs Should Get Personally Involved in Talent Development

    By: Frank V. Cespedes, Jay Galeota and Michael Wong
    Estimates indicate that, globally, human capital has a value about 2.3 times that of physical capital. This difference is likely to widen in increasingly service-driven economies. Yet, most companies maintain their equipment better than their people. The issue is not... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Training
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    • 27 Sep 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages

    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan & Selin Sayek
    • Teaching Interest

    The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports (Executive Education)

    By: Anita Elberse
    In the business of entertainment, digital technologies are dramatically disrupting the way products are developed, marketed, and distributed. As a result of this paradigm shift, entertainment executives and content producers are challenged to effectively allocate... View Details
    • November 2009 (Revised August 2010)
    • Case

    NovoCure Ltd.

    By: William A. Sahlman and Sarah Flaherty
    Venture capitalist William Doyle must raise $35 million for a portfolio company with a promising, novel cancer therapy, just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Technological Innovation; Financial Services Industry
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The New Empirical Economics of Management

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen
    Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Organization; Productivity; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Microeconomics
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    • June 2005 (Revised May 2006)
    • Case

    Vidient (A)

    Vidient, a young company, is in the process of being spun out of a much larger, established Japanese business. Vidient is in the business of analyzing the feeds from security cameras and catches security breaches automatically, without human assistance. The parent... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Service Industry; Japan
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      The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports

      In the business of entertainment, digital technologies are dramatically disrupting the way products are developed, marketed, and distributed. As a result of this paradigm shift, entertainment executives and content producers are challenged to effectively allocate... View Details
      • 06 Feb 2013
      • What Do You Think?

      Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

      with a new name The ideas are feel good and to be desired but will fail in the market place which gives capital the primary (and therefore only) stake in the outcome of social human enterprise." Jan Fersubg... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • Research Summary

      Overview

      Eric's research interests include strategy, human capital, and executive compensation. His current work explores how accumulated leadership experience drives compensation outcomes among executives moving jobs across firms. View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Human Capital; Executive Compensation

        Hubert Joly

        Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy
        Author of The Heart of Business– Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

        Hubert Joly is a senior lecturer in the General Management unit and... View Details

        • 16 Aug 2016
        • First Look

        August 16, 2016

        these streams and offers human resource management researchers and professionals insights and approaches for helping diverse teams tackle complex problems. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51467... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • Article

        The Effect of Institutional Factors on the Value of Corporate Diversification

        By: Venkat Kuppuswamy, George Serafeim and Belen Villalonga
        Using a large sample of diversified firms from 38 countries we investigate the influence of several national-level institutional factors or 'institutional voids' on the value of corporate diversification. Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a... View Details
        Keywords: Diversification Discount; Institutions; Labor Market; Competition; Human Capital; Diversification; Value; Capital Markets
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        • 08 May 2006
        • Lessons from the Classroom

        Writing the Case for Public School Reform

        Campaign for Human Capital at the School District of Philadelphia" examines one district's innovative approach to recruiting and retaining qualified teachers; "Reinventing View Details
        Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
        • June 2018
        • Teaching Note

        Zurich Insurance

        By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane and Joni Coughlin
        This teaching note addresses six cases in the Zurich Insurance series, the overview case (HBS No. 417-035) and five cases focused on particular change efforts (HBS Nos. 417-036 through 417-040).
        Zurich Insurance was undergoing organizational change after... View Details
        Keywords: Managing Change; Organizational Behavior; Diversity Management; Organizational Architecture; Recruiting; Succession Planning; Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Human Capital; Human Resources; Insurance; Leadership; Diversity; Organizational Structure; Recruitment; Leadership Development; Management Succession; Insurance Industry
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